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Hemingway Adventure - Italy, Fossalta — Chapter: Italy. Fossalta di Piave, Italy.

Casa Botter, Hemingway’s billet from which he set out by bicycle on the fateful night when he was hit and wounded.

Hemingway Adventure - Italy, Fossalta — Chapter: Italy. Fossalta di Piave, Italy.

My bicycle is not quite the one Hemingway would have used, but not far off. It dates back to the 1920s.

Hemingway Adventure - Italy, Fossalta — Chapter: Italy. Fossalta di Piave, Italy.

A farmhouse in the flatlands of the Piave valley at Fossalta.

Hemingway Adventure - Italy, Fossalta — Chapter: Italy. Fossalta di Piave, Italy.

The Piave river at Fossalta. The Italian positions were on the left bank, Austrian on the right, when battle began at midnight on 8 July 1918. Moments later Hemingway was struck by a mortar blast.

Hemingway Adventure - Italy, Fossalta — Chapter: Italy. Fossalta di Piave, Italy.

The old pontoon bridge across the Piave river, the front line in 1918.

Hemingway Adventure - France, Paris — Chapter: Paris. Paris, France.

Hemingway was a regular visitor to the old Shakespeare and Company and borrowed books that often failed to find their way back.

Hemingway Adventure - France, Paris — Chapter: Paris. Paris, France.

Fifty-five years after liberation, I storm up to the Arc de Triompe in a Second World War American tank.

Hemingway Adventure - France, Paris — Chapter: Paris. Paris, France.

Waiting for a kick start.

Hemingway Adventure - France, Paris — Chapter: Paris. Paris, France.

Saying goodbye to Paris.

Hemingway Adventure - Pamplona, 2nd Day — Chapter: Spain. Pamplona, Spain.

The correct outfit for San Fermín is a white shirt, white trousers and a splash of red.

Hemingway Adventure - Pamplona, 2nd Day — Chapter: Spain. Pamplona, Spain.

Flour begins to fly in the Town Hall square, as Pamplona prepares to let off steam.

Hemingway Adventure - Pamplona, 2nd Day — Chapter: Spain. Pamplona, Spain.

The Pamplona squeeze. Huge, soggy crowd cheers the start of an eight-day party.

Hemingway Adventure - Pamplona, 2nd Day — Chapter: Spain. Pamplona, Spain.

Hemingway Adventure - Pamplona, 2nd Day — Chapter: Spain. Pamplona, Spain.

Hemingway Adventure - Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya — Chapter: Africa. Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya.

Hemingway Adventure - Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya — Chapter: Africa. Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya.

From the air, the boma, or encampment, of the nomadic Masai looks like a cigarette burn in the middle of the bush. Fenced with thorns and accommodating humans and cattle, the bomas may last two or three years.

Hemingway Adventure - Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya — Chapter: Africa. Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya.

Mount Kilimanjaro with the jagged outcrop of Mawenzi Peak.

Hemingway Adventure - Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya — Chapter: Africa. Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya.

Going to clear lethal Wakamba cattle traps.

Hemingway Adventure - Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya — Chapter: Africa. Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya.

Clearing lethal Wakamba cattle traps.

Hemingway Adventure - Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya — Chapter: Africa. Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya.

Back at Ol Donyo Wuas, Richard’s lodge.

Hemingway Adventure - Cuba, Havana — Chapter: Cuba. Cojímar, Cuba.

The waterfront at Cojímar.

Hemingway Adventure - Cuba, Havana — Chapter: Cuba. Cojímar, Cuba.

The waterfront at Cojímar guarded by a rugged fortress dating from the days when Havana was an assembly point for the Spanish treasure fleets.

Hemingway Adventure - Cuba, Havana — Chapter: Cuba. Cojímar, Cuba.

Is it George V or Lenin? Ernest Hemingway’s non-likeness is made from melted brass off the fishing boats of Cojímar, the village from which Pilar often set out. The memorial on the waterfront is a tribute from the locals.

Hemingway Adventure - Cuba, Havana — Chapter: Cuba. Cojímar, Cuba.

At the boat-yard in Cojímar with the man whose grandson calls him ‘a living museum’. And a living source of income – tourists can visit him in his little house for fifty dollars a time.

Hemingway Adventure - Cuba, Havana — Chapter: Cuba. Cojímar, Cuba.

Gregorio Fuentes. 101 and still smoking. The eyes are extraordinary.

Hemingway Adventure - Cuba, Havana — Chapter: Cuba. Havana, Cuba.

Bodeguita, a favourite Hemingway bar.

Hemingway Adventure - American West, Marion, Montana — Chapter: American West. Marion, USA.

Hemingway Adventure - American West, Marion, Montana — Chapter: American West. Marion, USA.

Me and my pal, Pal. Bonding with a Palomino at the Hargrave Ranch.

Hemingway Adventure - American West, Marion, Montana — Chapter: American West. Marion, USA.

The Magnificent Six bring the cattle back home. Less of a stampede, more like rounding up a crèche. But it was our first day.

Hemingway Adventure - American West, Marion, Montana — Chapter: American West. Marion, USA.

Leo and Ellen – our heavenly hosts at the Hargrave Ranch.

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